The Sound of Crying by Prefab Sprout Song Details

Prefab Sprout's ' "The Sound of Crying" was released on its scheduled release date, January 12, 1992. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The song is number 3 out of 16 in A Life Of Surprises: The Best Of Prefab Sprout by Prefab Sprout. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, The Sound of Crying's popularity is below average in popularity right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of The Sound of Crying by Prefab Sprout is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 138 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of A Minor. Because this track belongs in the A Minor key, the camelot key is 8A. So, the perfect camelot match for 8A would be either 8A or 7B. While, a low energy boost can consist of either 8B or 9A. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5A and a high energy boost can either be 10A or 3A. However, if you are looking for a low energy drop, finding a song with a camelot key of 7A would be a great choice. Where 11A would give you a moderate drop, and 6A or 1A would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 11B allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-12.649 dB
Acousticness
1%
Danceability
50%
Energy
88%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
5%
Loudness
79%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
68%

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ISRC
GBBBN9200020
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records